by Ellen Clarke | Jan 5, 2018 | Creativity
We need creative people. Your ability to connect people, share experiences, dissolve our differences and bring us together. Art reflects our innermost selves that we thought only we felt, making us feel less alone and more understood. Bernard Hiller says, “When...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 4, 2018 | Creativity
Whether you’re an artist, musician, cook, fashion designer, architect, interior designer, actor, dancer……..there’s a magical element in doing it. A part of yourself is in it. Why do we? Because it feels good……brings joy to us...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 3, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Alfred Leung – Unsplash Creativity is one of those vague terms with subjective meanings, like “happiness” and “success.” What it means to you is different from what it means to me. So there could be a million definitions. Like...
by Ellen Clarke | Jan 2, 2018 | Creativity
Photo by Patrick Kool on Unsplash When you hear the word “creative,” what do you think of? Do you imagine a child having fun with finger paints? Or a sculptor intent on perfection? Maybe a fiddler in a pub leading the crowd, or a dancer on...
by Ellen Clarke | Sep 17, 2017 | Spirituality
If you’re a Highly Sensitive Person, your sensory systems are on red alert – read overstimulated – a lot. Not only mentally – your body’s in on the action too, firing off warnings left and right. Quite tiring to body and brain. Sleep...
by Ellen Clarke | Sep 10, 2017 | Spirituality
After taking last week’s quiz, you might have determined you’re a “highly sensitive person,” or HSP. Or maybe someone special in your life is. Psychological research and social norms have come a long way in understanding (and even defining)...
by Ellen Clarke | Sep 3, 2017 | Spirituality
“You’re too sensitive” “You need to get out of your shell” “You act like a baby” Sometimes bullied and picked on, teased until it hurts, never seeming to be able to fit in. Does any of this sound familiar to you or someone you...
by Ellen Clarke | Aug 27, 2017 | Spirituality
Writing! One common talent I’ve observed in many introverts is the need to write. I’m not talking about anything professional necessarily – although it seems many, many novelists, journalists, poets, etc are introverts. Introverts tend to prefer...
by Ellen Clarke | Aug 20, 2017 | Spirituality
Empathetic listening. Few people have the ability to truly empathize, and listen with intention. I don’t know about you, but when something comes easy, we tend to 1) think everyone else can do it too, and 2) it’s no big deal. As introverts, we have...
by Ellen Clarke | Aug 13, 2017 | Spirituality
Introspection. Your ability to see and understand what’s going on behind the scenes, into the processes and thoughts that shore up organizations and structures is awesome. Do you enjoy research, looking at something from all angles? Planning? What an...
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